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The children killed in the fire, Fakih Jones, 7; Shauntavia Mitchell, 12; Malee’ya Williams, 12; Miles Cockfield, 13; Earnest Tate Jr., 13, Antwon Jackson, 14; Moses Williams Jr., 14 and Devonte Carter, 15, were attending a sleepover for Moses’ birthday.  33-year-old Medeia Carter, the mother of four of the children, was also killed in the blaze.
More than 4,000 people attended a mass funeral for the children held at Cleveland’s convention center.
On Wednesday morning U.S. District Court Judge Solomon Oliver, Jr. ruled in favor of a motion filed in June 2011 by Lewis’ attorneys that asked he be granted a new trial.
Judge Oliver, Jr., concluded in his ruling that Lewis was convicted, in part, on the testimony of key government witnesses that were, “marked by uncertainties and discrepancies.”
The judge’s ruling called into question the testimony of jailhouse informants, crack addicts, a prostitute and that of the alleged accomplice in the crime, career criminal Marion Jackson.

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A still from Day 16 of the Puppet’s Court, produced by 19 Action News in Akron, Ohio. 
Jimmy Dimora is the former Cuyahoga County Commissioner, a man who was once, according to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, “one of the highest profile politicians in Cuyahoga County.” That job put him in a position to help out developers and contractors, and, in 2008, his home was raided as part of a major corruption investigation. In 2010 he was arrested by the FBI. He was charged with 36 counts of racketeering and related offenses.
It’s a juicy story, involving bribery, prostitutes, flagrant misbehavior by public officials and private citizens, and all of this has been described in detail on the witness stand. However, because it’s a federal trial, cameras have not been allowed in the courtroom. So what is a hungry local TV news team to do?

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POLICE are investigating a Liberal Democrat council candidate over alleged Islamaphobic comments posted on his Facebook page.
Cleveland Police has received information regarding comments which were used on Dave Stones’ account on the social networking site.
The posting was said to have suggested a pork restaurant and a topless bar should be built next to a mosque.
The issue became a point of contention in the run up to last month’s Redcar and Cleveland Newcomen ward by-election, in which Mr Stones was the defeated Lib Dem candidate.
At the time he apologised for any offence caused, saying that someone forwarded him a Facebook status that was “clearly in poor taste,” and – instead of deleting it – he kept it on his page.
Labour MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, Tom Blenkinsop, raised the issue in the House of Commons on January 12, accusing Mr Stones of holding “clearly expressed Islamophobic views”.

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Along the way, he called a friend who gave him the name of respected defense attorney John Gibbons, a former county and federal prosecutor. Gibbons told Kelley not to speak with the FBI until he arrived at Kelley’s home.
The next day, Kelley began cooperating. Over the next several months, he wore a recording device 20 times for the FBI and helped agents snare county auditor’s employee Dennis Dooley, who bribed Kelley with $5,000 in cash as an “upfront payment” for a better-paying job with the Cleveland Metroparks. Dooley pleaded guilty in federal court and was sentenced to 27 months in prison in 2010.
Kelley also had to confess his crimes and infidelities to his family. He spoke with his older daughters about the scheming and later told his wife about the prostitutes.

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Euclid Piano Teacher Accused of Sex Abuse
EUCLID, Ohio –
Cuyahoga County prosecutors say for 13 years, a former student of piano instructor Bruce Locke kept a secret: that Locke had allegedly molested her at his home in Euclid in 1999, when she was just nine years old.
But investigators say the woman, now 22 years old, decided to come forward after she saw media coverage of the Penn State molestation scandal, and feared that other piano students may have been molested by Bruce Locke, now 61 years old.
On Friday, a Cuyahoga County grand jury returned a 12-count indictment against Locke that includes charges of importuning for allegedly soliciting sex from the victim, kidnapping, and gross sexual imposition.
Locke is also facing child pornography charges, after Euclid police searched his home and found a computer with illegal images of minors stored on it.

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CLEVELAND – Two people from Cleveland are facing sex trafficking charges related to a 16-year-old girl.
Ernest F. McClain, 27, and Chardee D. Barfield, 21, both of Cleveland, were indicted on sex trafficking of children and transportation of a minor, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.
“Stopping human trafficking is a top priority of this office,” said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio. “Forcing children to sell their bodies as part of the commercial sex industry is appalling.”
According to the indictment, McClain and Barfield enticed and harbored a 16-year-old girl for the purpose of having her engage in sex acts from Oct. 1 to Dec. 5. The indictment also indicates that Barfield took the girl from Ohio to Pennsylvania for prostitution.

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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Kip Winger: When Hair Metal Grows Up
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You might remember Kip Winger as the guy who sang about banging 17-year-old girls as frontman for the late-’80s metal band Winger.
While most of his hair-metal pals can be found these days whining about how hard it is to get stripper girlfriends once you’re fat and broke, 50-year-old Winger has aged with amazing grace.
For nearly two decades, he’s been studying composition and writing classical music, including pieces for the San Francisco Ballet. That’s what brought him to Oberlin College last week, where he spent three days rehearsing and recording his latest piece for the ballet Conversations With Nijinsky, which scholars confirm is not at all about nailing chicks. Helping Winger was an orchestra of 60 students from the college’s music conservatory.

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Hagenbuch technology licensed to Hitachi LeRoy G. Hagenbuch, chairman of Philippi-Hagenbuch, Inc., announced that he and Hitachi Construction Machinery, the HCM Group, which includes Hitachi Truck Manufacturing company and Wenco International Mining Systems Ltd, have expanded their existing license agreement to include collection of real-time data. The original license agreement from January 2000 between LeRoy G. Hagenbuch and Euclid-Hitachi Heavy Equipment, encompasses various vehicle management systems patents. Under the agreement, LeRoy G. Hagenbuch grants HCM a nonexclusive license in the United States and Canada to utilize the technology represented by these patents to produce HCM products covered by these patents.
Copper Wire Stripper wins innovative product award
Copper Wire Stripper Ltd., headquartered in Ontario, Canada, received the 2011 NECA Showstopper Award for the most innovative product at the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) show. The award was received for the company’s CWS-1 wire stripper.

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Prosecutors today also replayed wiretaps related to the infamous Las Vegas trip made by Dimora,
Russo and others in April 2008.
Kelley will likely be on the witness stand for several days.
In his initial testimony on Monday, Kelley said that he had initially reached out to Dimora and Russo because of their powerful political influence.
The charges against Dimora are found in a 36-count, 148-page federal indictment, alleging that he used his county commissioner’s office as the base to run a criminal enterprise.
Gabor is accused of bribery and conspiracy, including a charge that he tried to pay a judge $10,000 to fix his divorce case.
Both have denied the allegations.
Dimora’s wife, Lori, is in court today. She has not been there for several days, during which prosecutors presented testimony about affairs and prostitutes.

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But “this play just kind of sat on the back burner,” according to Calhoun, until Joel Hammer of Dobama prodded him to submit a play to GymRep. Anyone familiar with Cleveland East Tech High School will know The Mighty Scarabs as the basketball team that brought hope to a poor community by winning two straight Class AA state championships in 1958 and 1959. They went on to be state champions again in 1972.
Calhoun himself played for the renowned team at one time.
“When my mother told my father I made the team, he didn’t believe it,” Calhoun notes. Calhoun chose to set “The Mighty Scarabs” in 1965, twenty years after a fictional Scarabs’ win in 1945. The sixties, besides being a period Calhoun knew well, was one in which the culture of drugs, of “playing the numbers,” of prostitution, were still active, to bring the win into sharp contrast.

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